And that was with Sony outselling the 360 nearly every year, the Xb1 has been selling at a much lower rate than the PS4 since launch

they are not even running on the same track and not even to the same destination too. WTH dude?

Do you have any data to confirm this? Maybe a survey ... Where does this statement come from?

yes because 1080ti sells more than 1060. You forgot price tool

If their booth space is any indication, they don't have that much going on this year compared to last.

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How? Sony has way more games announced, 9 major AAA titles, 7 of which have to release by E3 2018, that means marketing at major gaming events, E3 will probably have new gameplay, details about each and release dates.

Sony probably has so much in development, which they're yet to announce and they can very likely match their last 2 E3's for spectacle and volume.
If hardware is really a concern for Sony they can easily release an improved version of Pro this Fall, along with a Portable PS4 using AMD's Bristol/Raven Ridge tech.

It's not possible for Microsoft to come close to matching Sony's E3 this year.

Actually we know the developers that Microsoft works with, just like we know who Sony works with to make exclusives and Microsoft doesn't have many that could be ready to deliver release ready content within the next 18 months, Sony already announced enough games to cover them through to E3 2018, but they also have a bunch of partners and internal talent that have been busy working on unannounced games for years.

Microsoft aren't backed by enough development talent to sprint up to Sony's level, in fact Sony's real world partners and existing internal development talent puts them in a legendary position to fulfil their hunger to remain number one and they don't care about whether they're safe, they just want to keep delivering games and PlayStation products to provide every audience possible with a diverse range of goods.
Basically if something works well and satisfies the demands of an audience they'll find a way to keep pushing the medium of video games and interactive entertainment to it's limits or break the boundaries if possible.

Games are what matters more than anything, hardware is nice, but Scorpio is a largely known quantity, we already know that anything which runs at 900p to 1080p on the Xbox One and S will be 4K native on Scorpio if devs take advantage of the hardware or MS enables it, anything below 900p won't. Scorpio isn't an exciting thing to focus on, since it's been announced, it's not a new thing to really talk about, because it's already been announced, learning the price and what it really looks like will at best be interesting, hardly E3 winning stuff.
The release date is a good bit of info.

Seeing new gameplay of previously announced games we don't know much about, being told new info about those games and finding out their release dates is exciting stuff, Sony has more of that lined up going into E3.
New game announcements are what E3 is about though, those are what make the event exciting, as well as games that have turned to vapor for years finally get re-revealed, with real, tangible chances of releasing, Sony has the resources to blow up E3 once again in this area.

There are even rumors about a PS4 Portable (which the tech exists to make a reality), Pro could even receive an upgraded model, same goes for PSVR (making a wireless model).
Any of those things could happen at Sony's conference, new games will be the winning part for gamers.

Pretty much.

It's so incredibly odd that people (and the company) are putting so much stock into a mid-gen refresh and treating it like a brand new console launch when we're so close to the end of a generation. I suppose it's related to console fanboyism and long, pent-up desire for MS to be "on top", but that's just a pipedream. They can market it to the moon but at the end of the day it's a premium, and niche piece of hardware that maybe up to 1% of the overall Xbox One audience will own and less than that in relation to the overall console hardware market. How relevant can that be for the 2 years until PS5 comes out and especially without a first-party that brings audiences to its knees?

win it? how? the math is not on their side.

It's not possible, Sony has 9 major AAA exclusives announced already, at least 7 of them pretty much have to release before E3 2018, there are probably at least 3X that many unannounced games Sony have to reveal over the next 18 months to give those games time market before the end of the generation.

If hardware power is an issue for devs it's certainly something Sony can rectify with an upclocked version of PS4 Pro, with more RAM.
Games wise Sony has a lot more we don't know about, than we do and definitely more than Microsoft could possibly have in production.

I was just being optimistic about my fellow xbots. But being realistic, XBO is a failure. Scorpio is the beginning of a new generation for MS and as soon as possible they will ignore XBO.

No they can't LoL, they don't have access to the talent that Sony does and even after putting out legendary conferences for each event they've put on a show at since E3 2015 Sony still has more developers that have been busy working on even more new games, with years of development time behind those new titles.

Money is only part of the picture, but tbh Sony are likely more willing to back PlayStation financially than Microsoft are with XBox, because PlayStation has been bringing in huge, sustained profits, from both the exclusive games and non-exclusive 3rd party game sales.
At this point it's clear Sony has the relationships with game devs to foster awesome creativity, which has been instrumental in allowing developers to move gaming forward.

Microsoft are very Draconian in their hands on control of everything game development related and that has killed much of their chances to put out quality new games.
Best case scenario they have a good showing of titles people already know about, maybe 343i has been working on a new IP for a while which went into full production when Halo 5 shipped, which they can finally show, possibly Rare teases something coming after Sea of Thieves releases and the rest of their conference is about Scorpio price, design and OS features, maybe some XBL or Game Pass stuff, a reasonable showing, so-so.

Sony on the other hand have 3-4X the number of announced games MS does, all with release dates right around the corner, a bunch more unknowns (at least 4X as many as Microsoft possibly can), the potential to also surprise with an improved PS4 Pro, a PS4 portable, new PS Plus announcements, Price cuts for hardware and maybe even an updated version of PSVR.

It's not even a matter of opinion at this point, if we look at the developers who are making games for each platform it's a landslide in favor of Sony.
It's not even like Sony are going to hold games back from this Fall to avoid going up against the major 3rd Party titles coming this Fall because what they have is going to suit the tastes of a different kind of gamer compared to your CoD, BF2 or D2, even SoW or ACO.

Sony has so much stuff that they haven't announced yet, future stuff that their currently announced titles needs to be out by the end of 2018 to make way for.

Knack 2, Spiderman, God of War and GT Sport basically have to be Fall 2017 releases, because they're established franchises and they don't need as much time to market as new IP's do, all have had plenty of time in development to be polished and ready by September to go gold.
Dreams, Detroit, Days Gone and Sucker Punch's next game are all new IP which need longer time to market, From Software's next big game (could be a new IP or Bloodborne 2), The Last of Us Part 2 and probably Deep Down are all highly likely to be 2018 games.

Death Stranding could be 2019 or 2020, it depends on whether PS5 comes out in Fall 2019 or 2020.
Besides DS we don't know what's coming in either of those years.

Loads of devs already released a PS4 game and rotated onto their next games which will be final year or penultimate release window games.
Microsoft couldn't even release half the volume of stuff Sony and their partners put out since E3 2016.

Everytime I see an XBox fan state Microsoft can match Sony I ask "Who will be making XB1's games?" and "Who out of Microsoft's developers or development partners could be ready to show something?".

Each generation has for the most part been 6 years long, at most it's been 7 years for Sony with PS3, they've just begun harvesting their crop of releases, between now and E3 2018 they have loads to release.
The sheer volume and quality of what Sony has announced is basically impossible to match given what developers has working for them, Sony also has so much more to reveal, it's not possible for Microsoft to even get within a mile of Sony's lead.

I remember dealing with this kind of facepalm-worthy delusion from the Xbox strong years ago and I honestly thought we were done with having to reply to such garbage, but here we are.

Having better looking games for 2 years until the PS5 comes out is not going to "even the console war". Good for you if you're excited for Microsoft promises with Scorpio, I have no issue with that. But no, this generation is not going to be 8-10 years long and only a desperate Xbox fan would want that because they want more than 24 months of better looking games to boast about. The 7th generation was already longer than average and too long. The PS4 Pro arrived 3 years into the generation - a halfway mark - and PS5 is looking likely for 2019 or 2020 at the latest.

Microsoft have supposedly been providing people with the games that they want to play - supposedly - and it hasn't made an impression on PS4's lead. Sony, by far and large, has the games that people want to play. Exclusive deals have netted MS very little but failure and decisions to close studios and cancel projects. Sony has all the biggest exclusive marketing deals that will promote the PS4 over the Scorpio. All these supposed things that they're doing in response to listening to gamers has not helped them in years, and people still prefer the PS4.

They're a 500 billion dollar company, but Xbox is but a fraction of their concern and that same 500 billion dollar company canceled and closed most of their first-party Xbox resources in 2016, and they don't anything that can match Sony's output of games aside from manically whipping up exclusive deals, which are getting harder and harder for them to achieve considering PS4 marketshare is increasing and negative experiences in the past are a warning sign for most publishers considering working with them.

It's not possible for them to come back this generation AT ALL. PS4 is the significantly more desirable product and nothing is going to stop that once the JUGGERNAUT exclusives they've already announced make their way on to the market. When all is said and done, PS4 will have sold 100 million units and Xbox One will be lucky to have scratched 50 million units. PS4 will have the most diverse, best rated, best selling games and most ambitious exclusive games. I can't believe the utterly delusional mindset has resurfaced, but I'm not surprised it's coming from a guy with a Master Chief avatar.